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The slippery slope - dictatorship anyone?

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Amagran Thu 26-Sept-19 01:35:09

We have a Prime Minister who suspends Parliament for 5 weeks at a time of national crisis in order to allow him to pursue a minority policy, and who then forcefully declares that the 11 Justices of the Supreme Court, the highest legal authority in the country, are wrong.

My Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a dictator as a ruler with (often usurped) unrestricted authority. It defines usurp as seize or assume (a throne or power etc.) wrongfully.

I feel that we have crossed a line on to a very slippery slope.
Do supporters of Johnson not feel just a teeny bit worried?

varian Thu 03-Oct-19 09:17:24

The appalling enelected Cummings is up to his dirty tricks again

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-telling-outright-lies-says-former-law-chief-grieve-zgcjb0wzh#

Firecracker123 Thu 03-Oct-19 09:28:11

Dominic Grieve the quisling.

varian Thu 03-Oct-19 10:00:14

"Quisling" is another war-time insult. We are not at war.

varian Thu 03-Oct-19 13:05:11

Tory peer demands Dominic Cummings is stripped of Westminster pass over 'contempt' of Parliament

By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline

Amagran Thu 03-Oct-19 13:38:33

The signs are that Johnson's Brexit deal will be rejected by both the EU and by Parliament. What next, I wonder? Johnson has made it very clear that he will still pursue a no-deal Brexit and the opposition parties/groupings, do not seem to be able to agree a strategy to remove him. So what plan are he and Cummings hatching, or should I say knitting, as it will doubtless be codged together with loopholes?
Sorry, cancel that knitting analogy. Knitting is a craft requiring skill, experience, focus and an ability to follow instructions laid down by others and by convention and generally has the aim of producing something useful.

Chestnut Thu 03-Oct-19 16:44:22

The signs are that Johnson's Brexit deal will be rejected by both the EU and by Parliament.
Without knowing whether this is a 'good' deal I'm not bothered, then we can have a nice clean Brexit on 31st October and get out of the gruesome situation we are currently in (cue a storm of hailstones from outraged remainers!)

jura2 Thu 03-Oct-19 17:01:22

nice, clean ... oh my sad

jura2 Thu 03-Oct-19 17:05:13

Firecracker - well thank you, I have learnt a new word today. I had to look it up.

'Dominic Grieve the quisling.' It seems there are many in the dark forces at play currently - but certainly not Dominic Grieve. The man has more courage, intelligence, integrity and dignity than the whole of ERG and Bojo put together. Shame on you.

MaizieD Thu 03-Oct-19 17:13:23

^ a nice clean Brexit^

You have absolutely no idea, do you, Chestnut. angry

There will be absolutely nothing at all 'clean' about it.

Fennel Thu 03-Oct-19 17:38:57

But we have been trained to believe that our 'Rulers' will look after us, whatever happens. so why should we be afraid?

Whitewavemark2 Thu 03-Oct-19 17:55:29

This

Andrew Adonis
@Andrew_Adonis

Johnson is now blaming Ireland

These Tories can’t get used to the fact that Ireland is now more powerful than England - for the first time in history - because it has the EU behind it. Whereas England under Johnson doesn’t even have the UK behind it

Whitewavemark2 Thu 03-Oct-19 17:58:15

And this

Best For Britain
@BestForBritain
·p
Chief of Police in NI to Johnson: The PSNI will not police customs checkpoints, will not "put police officers on any one of 300 crossings" and will not be "dragged into another type of policing".

This is extraordinary stuff, both in content and tone.

varian Thu 03-Oct-19 19:03:35

Johnson’s unworkable Brexit plan won’t solve the Northern Ireland border issue

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/03/northern-ireland-border-brexit-boris-johnson

absthame Sat 05-Oct-19 22:20:59

Johnson's Brexit plan was never designed to solve the Irish border issue or even form the basis of an agreement with the EU. It was always designed to provide a certain rejection of something he could sell to a gullible nation as a “good deal” that an intransigent EU and parliament unreasonably rejected. If it works he will succeed in crashing out, without a deal, eliminate both the LP and the Brexit Party. Then like his hero Emperor Augustus Boris will reign for 40 or more years.